Akçe - Ala al-Din Eretna ibn Jafar

Ala al-Din Eretna ibn Jafar ruled the Eretna beylik for only a few years in the 1350s before internal fragmentation tore the dynasty apart — his father, Eretna Bey, had carved out an independent Anatolian state from the collapsing Ilkhanate, but succession proved fatal to cohesion. Coins attributable to Ala al-Din are scarce precisely because his effective authority was contested almost from the start.

The Eretna beylik operated out of Sivas and Kayseri, minting in a tradition that blended Mongol administrative habits with Sunni Turkic legitimacy claims. A#2320.2 is one of very few catalogued varieties attributed to this specific ruler.